Golf, by TourMiss

Portstewart, Northern Ireland … Graeme McDowell’s won a U.S. Open along with 13 other victories and played in four Ryder Cups in his pro career but it doesn’t stop being brought back to earth when revisiting his beloved Rathmore Golf Club at Portrush. The clubhouse sports one of just two U.S. Open replicas he ordered after his Pebble Beach success. McDowell spent his childhood days, including no doubt skipping school sometimes, in honing his game on both courses at the famed Royal Portrush ...

Portstewart, Northern Ireland …. Former U.S. Open winning Justin Rose handed Jon Rahm some sobering advice declaring the only way the sometimes fiery Spaniard will win a Major is to control his frustration. Rahm, 22 drew much criticism over his unsporting manners ahead of missing the cut at the U.S. Open at Erin Hills. Rahm, with a maiden PGA Tour victory, a second to World No. 1 Dustin Johnson in Texas, and a third in Mexico already this year, let his temper get the better of him for the ...

It has been four years since Martin Laird last contested The Open but he booked himself a Royal Birkdale tee time thanks to what was the disappointment of sharing third place in the rain interrupted Quicken Loans in Maryland. The Scot posted a final round 67 to just miss out on the play off  and clearly left lamenting bogeying the last when he left his second shot short of the green from where he chipped and three putted for a bogey five that left him tied with Rickie Fowler at five under par. Sadly, ...

With Rory McIlroy describing last year’s stunning Dubai Duty Free Irish Open win as “sentimental value” he heads into the event later this week at Portstewart looking now at the historical significance of becoming the first repeat winner in 20 years. Scot Colin Montgomerie was the last to win back-to-back Irish Open’s 1997. The new World No. 4 ranked McIlroy heads a cast of nine Major Champions, 26 Ryder Cup stars, a dozen former Irish Open winners and strong contingent of 17 Irish in the ...

Tommy Fleetwood celebrated his recent engagement and news he is to become a father moving to the top of the Race to Dubai in winning the HNA Open de France. Fleetwood arrived Le Golf National as one of the form players on the European Tour but with a poor record on the course that will host next year’s Ryder Cup having never made the cut or even broken par in Paris. He put that right in some style with a closing bogey-free 66 that gave him a 12 under par total and a one-shot victory over American ...

Scot David Drysdale is on the verge of ending an eight-year absence and contesting the Open Championship for just a second time in his career. Drysdale, 42 heads into today’s SUN final round of the French Open in a six-way share 10th place and needing to remain inside the leading 10 to secure one of three spots into the July 20th commencing Open at Royal Birkdale. However, the affable Drysdale is already vying with five others also seeking the same Royal Birkdale exemption including the overnight ...

Geoff Ogilvy has boosted hopes of not only of capturing a ninth PGA Tour title but also securing a place in this year’s Open Championship. The recently turned 40-year old brilliantly turned back the clock grabbing six birdies in a five-under par 65 and muscle his way into second place on day two of the Quicken Loans on the TPC Potomac course in Maryland. It left the proud Australian trailing just two shots behind pint sized Swede David Lingmerth who leads on 10-under with a par of 65s. Ogilvy’s ...